46th Annual NeMLA Conference
April 30 through May 3, 2015
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2014

This panel seeks papers on the ways in which American poets write about walking and the significant role the walk poem has played in American literature. What is it about the walk poem that suits American poets so well? How…[Read more]

Call for Papers

WORLDS and WORDS

29th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities

Sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures

University of West Georgia, College of Arts and Humanities

Carrollton, Georgia

October 30-November 1, 2014

Deadline Extended until July 22nd

We welcome submissions from across…[Read more]

XVII International Conference
(A Silver Jubilee Event of the Forum on Contemporary Theory)

Jointly Organized by
The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda
&
The International Lincoln Centre for American Studies
Louisiana State University, Shreveport, USA
Re-Imagining Theory:
Towards New Horizons in the Humanities and the Social Sciences

21-24…[Read more]

This CFP might be of interest to the Women’s Studies forum:

Giving Voice, Appropriating Voices: Representing the Singularity of Suffering (NeMLA 2015)

Efforts to give voice to the silenced are central to postcolonial and feminist thought. Yet scholars in both disciplines, following Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty, have insisted that…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

Dear colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to submit proposals for a collection of essays that is tentatively titled The Good Life and the Greater Good in a Global Context. The essays need to focus on the discourses and practices of the good life, understood in all of its dimensions—material, psychological, ethical, spiritual, etc. –and appro…[Read more]

“The Romances of George Sand” (9/12/2014): email me for a free review copy at director@anaphoraliterary.com. Also, I hope you’ll add me as a friend/ fan/ or follow me on LibraryThing, Goodreads, Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn (search for my full name). Cheers, Anna Faktorovich, PhD, Director, Anaphora Literary Press

More information on the book a…[Read more]

Watch for this exciting panel, which has just been approved, at the 2015 meeting!

“Writing the Future”
The East Asia to 1900 and East Asia after 1900 divisions have selected for a collaborative session four short papers that focus on the ways in which literature written for children addressed the often turbulent transitions to modernity in East…[Read more]

Of interest to women’s studies scholars:

MLA 2015: ROUNDTABLE

Of interest to women’s studies scholars:

Elena Poniatowska: Five Decades of Critical Inquiry

Elena Poniatowska’s corpus has inspired three generations of scholars to engage in highly diverse approaches to literary theory and criticism, including approaches to testimonio, j…[Read more]

The Women’s and Gender Studies Caucus (WGSC) of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) welcomes session proposals (panel, roundtable, seminar) for the 2015 Convention in Toronto ON Canada, April 30 – May 3. The deadline for submission is April 22, 2014, and the online proposal form will be available mid-March.<b> </b>Please see [Read more]

We’re seeking proposals for a panel at MLA 2015 (Vancouver, Jan. 8-11) and for a special issue of the journal The Global South (published by Indiana UP, available via JSTOR and Project Muse) on the topic “Narrating Global South Cities.” Even though the “global South” has emerged as a “new and powerful ordering system for academic disci…[Read more]

And Forgetting? And future? Negotiating sites of memory focuses on various forms of remembering and seldom on the role that forgetting plays in creating a past. This is because we in literary studies normally assume that forgetting is the opposite of remembering, which is a rather narrow, Aristotelian way to understand this process and phenomenon.…[Read more]

The Committee for the Community College is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA Convention in Vancouver in January of 2015:

The End of Remediation? Papers can address issues related to the future of Developmental studies, including but not limited to accelerated learning, performance-based funding, the Common Core, and the completion agenda.…[Read more]

Call for Papers for a proposed panel at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, 8-11 Jan. 2015, in Vancouver. Jointly sponsored by the MLA Division on <i>European Literary Relations </i>and the MLA Discussion Group on <i>Comics and Graphic Narratives</i>.

Recently, the Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in Pari…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues,

The Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard is putting together an international conference on April 24-25th. Submissions from all relevant areas in literary and cultural studies are welcome. I am copying below the full text of the Call for Papers and relevant information for those interested in participating or attending.

Spaces of…[Read more]

This may be of interest to Women’s Studies members.

Call for papers: special issue of <i>Doris Lessing Studies</i>: Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London
<i>Doris Lessing Studies</i> is seeking papers for a special issue, “Émigrés and Exiles: Doris Lessing in Postwar London.” We invite papers about Lessing’s life and work in the 19…[Read more]

MLA-style calendar dates (in this case, 1900-2000) as markers of emergence or deliquescence of cultural or literary formations are obviously artificial, especially when the use of alternate periodization systems (e.g., Spanish generational, modern Japanese by emperor name, etc.) is taken into consideration. Yet such dating is also apt to take on…[Read more]